Mina (Sofia Black-D'Elia) is a regular British student living at home with her parents and younger sister. One night, three unknown men invade her family home. Unbeknownst to her, her mother was a nanny to Arab warlord Khalid's son in 1988. The Soviets killed the son and Khalid mistakenly assumed that Mina's mother was a spy. He had vowed blood vengeance. With her parents dead, she goes on the run from Khalid's men. MI6 hires private contractor Simon (James Frain) to protect her.

The action is staged poorly and I don't believe that the kids could escape from the gunmen. Some better staging would make the constant escaping more realistic. The unrealism in the plot do keep piling up. On top of that, the twenty plus years difference makes any romantic moves difficult. I do like the two leads but a romance between them is a bit creepy. The surprise reveal is not much a surprise at all. The plot tips that hand quite early on. There are better twists later on. This action thriller has a few too many problems with unrealistic plot turns and below average action work. Bullets do not bounce off into nothingness even if the car is bulletproof. All in all, this is a weaker effort.

The film opens in 1988 in the Wakhan corridor, Afghanistan. Daphne (Lisa Kay) works for a war lord and gets into trouble and leaves. Mina (Sofia Black-D'Elia) is her moody daughter at Oxford. Before long bad guys invade their home (early plot spoiler) kill her parents and she ends up talking to MI6. Mina is now being moved around to avoid assassins and gets some self defense training. About an hour into the film, it takes an interesting twist, but the film dragged even during the good scenes. Sofia Black-D'Elia was not strong enough an actress to carry the lead role, one that wasn't well written to begin with.

This is an action film that feels like a drama.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

I almost didn't watch the movie due to the very low ratings, but I'm glad I did. It has good action but what I really appreciated was the lack of Hollywood gimmicks. No bullet proof vests, no 50 caliber machine guns, no grenade or rocket launchers - just knives, handguns and some semi-auto rifles. There were lots of scenes where available resources were used as makeshift devices, not Jackie Chan style but simply to serve a necessary purpose. I was able to stay involved in the story and there were just enough plot twists to keep me interested. I thought the acting was strong by both Sofia Black-D'Elia and James Frain. I would like to see more of Sofia in the future. Philip Arditti as Khalid held his own as well and showed a point of view of a terrorist rarely seen in film today. There were a few scenes with audio issues (too much reverb in the dialogue due to mic selection and placement) but that can be forgiven since this was a low budget limited release. Recommended to check it out I don't think you will be disappointed.